18Synonyms found for Earth

Word Origin & History

earth O.E. eorðe "ground, soil, dry land," also used (along with middangeard) for "the (material) world" (as opposed to the heavens or the underworld), from P.Gmc. *ertho (cf. O.N. jörð, M.Du. eerde, O.H.G. erda, Goth. airþa), from PIE base *er-. The earth considered as a planet was so called from c.1400.

Example Sentences for earth

Stony is confused over the strange future, and then gets sent back to earth.

After many years of servitude, she is free to return to earth.

He was once healed by her power, and has followed clues about her to earth.

Sentient species humans appear to be mostly equivalent to humans on earth.

Fog differs from other clouds only in that fog touches the surface of the earth.

However, a few andys seek to escape this fate and supplant the humans on earth.

After a scream of pain from the victim, they erase his memory and send him back to earth.

The old man recovered from his injuries, and remains on earth.

We have probably only studied about one percent of all of the microbe species on earth.

Moisture is also retained more efficiently under mulch than on the surface of bare earth.